Two-time Tony Award-winning actor Michael Cerveris stars in an invitation-only Dec. 17 industry reading of the new musical The Goree Girls, about the inmates of a women's prison who form a rock band.

The reading is not open to the public. The Goree Girls has book and lyrics by Michael Bradley and music by Artie Sievers.

Michael Cerveris

Directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe, with musical direction by Ryan McCurdy, the show is, according to production notes, "inspired by a true story about a group of women at the Goree State Farm, an all-women’s penitentiary [in Depression-era Texas], who form a band and become an overnight sensation through a prison-based radio program. In their newfound fame, they dream of being pardoned and set free. A story of hope and redemption, The Goree Girls is Chicago meets 'Orange is the New Black' with a country twang."